I read Elizabeth Harris’ letter regarding money spent on political campaign ads and how the money would be better spent elsewhere and couldn’t agree with her more (“ Millions spent on political ads could be put to better use ,” Sept. 22).
In fact, there’s a possible solution to reducing campaign ad money, as well as all the “noise” of the election season that hammers us seemingly constantly.
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For the last 2-3 weeks before an election, the candidates would not be allowed to run any ads, and any ads they had run up to that point would be fact-checked by an independent, objective agency. Then those ads with the fact-checked data would be run in proportion to how much they were previously run — at the candidate’s expense.
Especially, as so many ads contain exaggerations, baseless statements and outright lies, as well as personal attacks on opponents, the lasting message going into an election would be about the truth of such statements instead of the lies.